Training continued.
Pte. Fred Clayton (see 27th September) was reported by Cpl. William McGill (see 11th September) as having ‘untidy kit’; on the orders of 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 27th September) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.
Pte. Fred Clayton (see 27th September) was reported by Cpl. William McGill (see 11th September) as having ‘untidy kit’; on the orders of 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 27th September) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.
Capt. Bob Perks
DSO (see 28th September)
re-joined the Battalion, more than a year after having been wounded during the
attack on the village of Veldhoek on 20th September 1917.
Capt, Bob Perks DSO
Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson
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L.Sgt. Harold Best
(see 20th September) and Pte. Newton Dobson (see 26th August) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.
Pte. John William
Kirby (see 28th May 1917)
was admitted via 69th Field Ambulance and 39th Casualty
Clearing Station to 51st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from
influenza.
Ptes. William
Shirtcliffe Mallinson (see 28th
July) and Herbert Stanley Smith
(see 16th June) were admitted
via 69th Field Ambulance and 9th Casualty Clearing
Station to 23rd Division Rest Station; both were suffering from
scabies. Pte. Smith would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after two
days, but Pte. Mallinson would remain under treatment.
Pte. Farrand Kayley
(see 20th August 1917),
brother of Tunstill’s recruits James (see 4th January) and Job Kayley (see 29th July 1916), who was serving in France with 1st/6th
Battalion West Ridings as a transport driver, returned to England on two weeks’
leave.
Lt. Charles Frederick
Wolfe (see 14th July),
former Transport Officer to 10DWR, now serving with the ASC, was posted to 435th
H.T. Company, based at Chatham.
Pte. Willie Holmes
(see 27th August), who had
been admitted to hospital whilst home on leave, was discharged from the War
Hospital in Dewsbury and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon. Within days
of reporting he would be admitted to the Camp Hospital for further treatment to
the boils and carbuncles which had seen him admitted previously.
A medical report was prepared on the condition of Pte. Walter Eary (see 28th September), who was being treated for a
laryngeal tumour at Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs. It was noted that,
“An oesophygal bougie (tube) could
not be passed through the thyroid level and caused some blood-stained mucous to
be brought up. There is some cough with blood-stained expiration. There is very
marked dysphagia (difficulty in
swallowing). The disease is probably malignant”.
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